The Craft of Teaching 2011
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This is a Timely Intervention by nefg on the Craft of Teaching as an Open Educational Resource, an OER. This looks at how we might apply the Learner-Generated Contexts Group PAH Continuum to our ...
This is a Timely Intervention by nefg on the Craft of Teaching as an Open Educational Resource, an OER. This looks at how we might apply the Learner-Generated Contexts Group PAH Continuum to our practice with examples from 5 great thinkers.
This the first in a series of monthly uploads. More at the nefg blog; http://nefg01.wordpress.com/
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The Greenwich image is taken from the website of the South Downs LEarning Centre who are referenced as part of Ian Cunningham's work.
http://www.thelearningcentre.selfmanagedlearning.org.uk/enrolment/costs.html
You can see the same kids in the Future of Learning vid;
http://yoodoo.org.uk/index.php?siid=6461 2 years ago
Nigel 2 years ago
Terry Pratchett sees auditors as the most evil of his characters in the Discworld novels and i agree with him. We get many of the problems we have in or world when accountability to publics is replaced by the mechanical recording of activity in terms of 'cost'. We need to get beyond this.
Nigel 2 years ago
two things I really like about this presentation and that should be at the heart of every educator (I prefer educator as it does not refer only to school teachers, but also people working in FE, HE, training, and even supervision): (1) Passion for learning (how can you motivate people to learn if you are not passionate about it and able to show it?!
(2) context. As Prof. Dias Figueiredo recently said (something like this) we no longer live in a society that requires disciplined employers, working 9 to 5, complying with the rules of the company. We belong to a society that is screaming for autonomous workers, able to imagine, design, create and advance their and their company’s thinking and practice. That requires a different type of mindsets, namely one that bestows autonomy to create new contexts in which they can learn and practise, and this challenge themselves while doing so
Of course this is all pretty to think of, but... how can this be empowered in real life...?!
Many things need to effectively change and be affected. (1) the structures on which we work and learn, and, with it, its obsolete ideas of measurement (also known as assessment); (2) people’s teaching practice - educators need to understand and practice the concept of autonomy. Yielding control is not easy, especially when that is exactly what you spent half your life longing for (=to be in charge) and then get overwhelmed with it. Exercising control, policing is so much easier than providing the freedom one needs to find their feet...as that requires mentoring and listening to...! (justsaying ;-) )
Lastly, I also think that there are some core values that are being lost such as honestly, fellowship, community feeling, trust in people etc - not surprising if we look at the examples leaders worldwide have presented us with... (cough)) - Maybe the appropriation of social media for learning can help bring that back?
That I think is also the role of educator in helping shaping context. How do we communicate the core values of living in society - that’s indeed the first and foremost goal of education: to inspire individuals to be good for themselves and others. That will help them in the sharing, in supporting others, in wanting to learn more, in wanting to do better... after that everything else will fall into place
we don’t know what the future holds, what is there to be learnt or done to assist us in the years ahead, yet we need to prepare for ... what will come our way. We prepare for the future by adopting such ideologies and practices in the present. After all the future has its roots in the past!
Nice one Fred! ;-) 2 years ago